- Nov 11, 2006
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I just bought a new Intel G2 80GB SSD. My new motherboard, CPU & memory will be delivered next week, so I have some time to get this right from the start.
For the moment I've installed the SSD in my current Win7 desktop as a second drive. I already made 3 partitions:
* 100MB for the reserved system partition
* 50GB for OS & apps
* 20GB scratch partition for my temp folder, CameraRaw cache and other stuff
* rest (=4.43GB) I left unpartitioned
I didn't want to exagerate with the unpartitioning stuff, as the G2 supports TRIM, and Intel already ships it SSDs with a farely large hidden spare area. So do these number look OK?
For the moment my OS partition is also 50GB, and only 17GB is used.
Data is stored on my NAS, so I don't need that much space locally on the computer.
What about the swap file? I have 4GB of RAM and don't fill it up that often. So I tend to keep the swap file small: custom size of 512MB to 2048MB max. Never had any problem with that.
Where do I store this on my next computer? On the OS partition as I do now (as that's the fastest part of my current mechanical drive), or am i better off putting it on the 20GB scratch partition once I use the SSD?
What about defragmentation on an SSD? For the moment I use PerfectDisk, and even though I thought fragmentation was no issue at all on an SSD (as the controller will scatter data to preserve the NAND from wearing out), they do advise to defragment SSDs:
http://www.perfectdisk.com/support/kb/791. Is that really true, or are they getting prepared for the future, when SSD will be the rule so they'd loose customers?
For the moment I've installed the SSD in my current Win7 desktop as a second drive. I already made 3 partitions:
* 100MB for the reserved system partition
* 50GB for OS & apps
* 20GB scratch partition for my temp folder, CameraRaw cache and other stuff
* rest (=4.43GB) I left unpartitioned
I didn't want to exagerate with the unpartitioning stuff, as the G2 supports TRIM, and Intel already ships it SSDs with a farely large hidden spare area. So do these number look OK?
For the moment my OS partition is also 50GB, and only 17GB is used.
Data is stored on my NAS, so I don't need that much space locally on the computer.
What about the swap file? I have 4GB of RAM and don't fill it up that often. So I tend to keep the swap file small: custom size of 512MB to 2048MB max. Never had any problem with that.
Where do I store this on my next computer? On the OS partition as I do now (as that's the fastest part of my current mechanical drive), or am i better off putting it on the 20GB scratch partition once I use the SSD?
What about defragmentation on an SSD? For the moment I use PerfectDisk, and even though I thought fragmentation was no issue at all on an SSD (as the controller will scatter data to preserve the NAND from wearing out), they do advise to defragment SSDs:
http://www.perfectdisk.com/support/kb/791. Is that really true, or are they getting prepared for the future, when SSD will be the rule so they'd loose customers?